any Chinese Laborer from

any

The language

in these Sections is

foreign port or place. sufficiently broad

and comprehensive to embrace all Chinese Laborers.

without

regard

to the country of which they may be

A

subjects. And the 12

Section declares that

any

Chinese

to exclude Chinese laborero

person found unlawfully within the United States

the circumstances under which it was

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passed and

from its language, that it had a still further object

The construction which

we

give

renders all its provisions

consistent with each other. The whole purpose of the law

from

the state would be

defeated by any other construction. The release of the

petitioner must be denied and he must be returned

to the ship from which he was taken. And it

Cory Field Circuit Justice

Sawyer, Circuit Judge.

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shall be removed

therefrom by direction of the President

to the country from whence he came

to China, but the country from whence he came.

Attention has been called to a recent decision of Judges

not necessarily

Our

in

po

ordered.

Lowell and Nelson

of

the Circuit Court.

of the United

Leader for

the district of

Massachusetts, in which in a

different conclusion was reached by them. Those Judges

considered that the Act

of Congress

was

simply intended

to give effect to the stipulations of the supplementary

Treaty. Undoubtedly, as already said that was one

of

the objects.

But it is very evident both from

of

the

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